Meta is going to let you update Quest apps before the headset shuts down

Meta’s v53 replace for Quest units provides a really welcome new characteristic: the headset will have the ability to replace apps once you shut down your headset. If it really works as supposed, meaning you’ll have the ability to obtain updates at a time once you aren’t planning to make use of the machine, which I’ll recognize — I’ve discovered myself caught ready for an replace after I need to make use of an app extra instances than I can rely.

How does it work? “You possibly can merely take off your headset, plug it in, and go about your corporation whereas the headset does its factor,” Meta says in a weblog submit. Sounds nice! I’m actually trying ahead to attempting this out myself.

v53 features a few different enhancements as nicely. The replace strikes what Meta calls “Superior Digital camera Settings” for capturing your gameplay, together with body price and side ratio, from the Experimental Settings panel and into the principle Digital camera Settings menu. For the Meta Quest Browser, the corporate is including a brand new parental supervision instrument and letting you log into Twitch. And the Meta Quest Professional will help Wi-Fi 6E with the brand new replace.

Meta says v53 will start rolling out “quickly.”